All right, so I’ve been asked many times what my dream phone is over the years and usually my answer is actually something
impossible ’cause I want, like, the screen from this one phone, but then the cameras from this other phone and this huge battery over here and the high-end chip from that other phone
And then I kind of wanna Frankenstein them all together
But now there’s a phone that appears to be as good as a phone spec sheet can possibly be at this very moment
Like if you were to make your 2025 dream phone spec sheet with unlimited budget, what would you do
Well, you’d probably start with a Snapdragon 8 Elite and something like 16 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of storage’s
And then, of course, an ultra bright higher fresh rate AMOLED
And don’t forget even super thin bezels all the way around
Then you gotta throw in at least a 6,000 milliampere-hour of battery, but also make it one of those silicon carbon batteries so the phone can still be thin.And then give it 100 watt charging and 50 watt wireless charging and reverse charging too while you’re at it
Then give it a full on one inch sensor for the main camera
And then a physics even allows it, you can also give it a huge sensor for an ultra wide and a telephoto
Actually, I don’t know, make it two telephotos
And all the trimmings, it’s gotta have ’em all
Wi-Fi 7, NFC, dual sim, IP69, of course, even an infrared emitter
Can’t forget about that.And yeah, that is the exact spec sheet of this phone
This is the Oppo Find X8 Ultra.It’s a new ultra flagship that’s never coming to the US, which is a bummer for me
But my God, this phone, this is basically the max of what humanity is capable of in 2025 if you don’t cut a single corner.Now the design is actually pretty tame considering this was the last Oppo Find Ultra phone
But now it’s kind of blending in with the rest of the flat sided boxy lookalike slabs out there with a big camera bump.The phone feels normal flagship size too
Yet somehow inside, they’ve fit a 6,100 milliampere-hour battery.Well, not somehow. We know how they did it
It’s a silicon carbon battery, which is what I was telling you guys about at the beginning of 2025, we know these high-end flagship phones are gonna have silicon carbon batteries, which let them have a ton of capacity but still actually be pretty thin
And it’s not just a capacity, it also charges at 100 wattshttps
So it can go from dead to full in something like 40 minutes, which is obviously incredibly convenient.But also anytime the phone’s even a little bit low, you can just plug it in for a few short minutes and it feels like it’s basically right up to nearly full again.It’s awesome
And then throw in 50 watt wireless charging and reverse wireless charging too
You just can’t really ask for much more out of a battery.So then around the front, the screen is also chart topping
1440p resolution, super sharp, check.120 hertz LTPO, also check.1600 nits full screen brightness with 2500 nits peak HDR, check.2160 hertz PWM dimming, also check.This display looks great pretty much everywhere
And it also has that really fast under display ultrasonic fingerprint reader.And then that tiny hole punch selfie camera at the top and then just the super thin bezels all the way around.So I feel like you also can’t ask for much more out of a phone display
But I have a feeling when they do the keynote for this phone, like when they do announce it, they’re probably gonna spend most of their time on the camera stuff because this is where it starts to get ridiculous
And I know cameras are not all just about specs, like, obviously there’s more to the story
There’s the tuning, the color science, and the processing and everything else.But the spec sheet for this camera system is ridiculous
There are technically five cameras on the back of this phone.Okay, so the first one, the primary camera is a one-inch type sensor, which is already huge.It’s crazy
I’ve talked about these a little bit in the past, but in case you missed it, that’s the same sensor size as point and shoot camera like the RX100
So these are massive sensors that just let in a ton of light.This one’s 50 megapixels.It has optical image stabilization.It has an f/1.8 aperture.And that is already gonna take up a lot of space inside this phone
This sensor is 63% larger than the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s main sensor and 69% larger than the one in the Galaxy S25 Ultra
Nice.But then the second camera, the 3X telephoto, is also enormous.That 50 megapixel sensor is 300% larger than the telephoto in the Galaxy S25 Ultra
It’s literally the same size as the primary camera in their own Find X8 flagship and the ROG phone.But then there’s even more because there’s a second telephoto camera.Another 50 megapixel. That is 6X this time
And this one is also 30% larger than the S25 ultra second telephoto and 36% larger than the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s second telephoto
So another huge sensor.And then throw in another huge 50 megapixel ultra wide camera.Plus that little one on the corner is a chroma sensor, specifically dedicated to collecting color temperature information for white balance.And overall, I think this is the most impressive collection of hardware I’ve ever seen in a phone camera
So okay, how does that translate to real life?Well, I’ve had the phone for a couple days now
Almost exactly what you’d expect with bigger sensors gathering more light, shallower depth of field, textbook.I ended up focusing quite a bit on the larger telephotos, which are, like I said, grabbing more light so they can freeze action better with faster shutter speeds.And you can get less grainy, better looking low light shots with them as well
And they are awesome with smooth, soft background blur.Looking like they’re coming from a real camera
And then the same with the primary sensor, but even better.The super shallow depth of field is shallower than normal to the point where sometimes it actually does misfocus and it’s even more obvious because, well, physics
With the right software tuning though, the sky’s the limit for this type of hardware.The chroma sensor is supposed to help specifically dial in white balance in mixed lighting scenes.And the 3X camera also does the macros
So you don’t have to get physically super up close to your subject like you would with an ultra wide macro, which seems to be more common in the past year of phones, which I think is smart.And then also the farthest of the zoom goes all the way up to 120X
And I found that with quite a bit of AI processing, it can look kind of weird on people and regular subjects
But if you wanna read text through this phone camera, you can take a shot, give it a second to process, and it does its best to interpret what the characters it’s seeing are and sometimes does a really good job
So shout out to the AI actually starting to get a little bit better.If anyone’s curious, the front camera is also quiteGood
It’s 32 megapixels with autofocus.And then on the video front, I think the Snapdragon 8 Elite is absolutely putting in work because this phone can do 4K 120fps Dolby Vision video for crying out loud from both the 1X and the 3X
There’s up to a terabyte of UFS 4.1 storage and yes, 16 gigs of RAM.There’s also an infrared blaster, which is a throwback that most phones do not include anymore, but it’s nice to know that you can still turn on and off random TVs that aren’t even yours.But if all that wasn’t enough, there are also a couple extra buttons on this phone
And this is also where you are reminded of how shameless Oppo can be sometimes
So top-left corner, they’ve replaced the alert slider, which I really liked, with this single customizable action…I mean, shortcut button here. It’s a shortcut button
So I haven’t been given a price tag for this phone as of the time of this recording, but, you know, considering the Find X8 Pro is an $800 phone, it’s fair to assume this will probably be a flagship priced $1,000 phone.But to borrow the line from the OnePlus 13 review earlier this year where the bar’s been set, I think now I can say the bar has been raised to a really good spot